Potage Bonne Femme

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 30

Appears in
The French Market

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2005

  • About

The ‘bonne femme’ in this case is Madame Labadie of Nérac, who grows the biggest and best leeks in the entire region. Fran has slightly adapted her family recipe, but if you want to be entirely authentic, substitute two Vache Qui Rit cheese triangles for the fromage frais. Madame Labadie has been making soup this way since the war, she tells me, and completely disapproves of such frivolities as fromage frais. However, in an emergency, and with no Vache Qui